Earth Science Web Sites and Related Information
Yellowstone-Teton Area
Compiled by Dr. Robert B. Smith
University of Utah
January 2010
(This document is by no means an exhaustive list of web sites on the
above subject, but provides useful sites only as a guide
for acquiring additional information)
Documents
Smith, R.B., and L. Siegel, 2000, Windows into the Earth: The geologic
story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Oxford Univ. Press,
New York.
Christiansen, R.L., 2001, The Quaternary and Pliocene Yellowstone Plateau
volcanic field of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey
Professional Paper: 729-G, 145 p., 3 plates, scale 1:125,000.
General Geology and Geophysics
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (contains extensive list of topics and
links for geologic maps, hazard and educational information, etc.)
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/
University of Utah Seismology and Active Tectonics Research Group
(Yellowstone, Teton and Wasatch fault studies)
http://www.uusatrg.utah.edu/
University of Utah Yellowstone-Teton Geologic Geographic Information
System site
http://www.yellowstonegis.utah.edu/
NPS geology website for Yellowstone National Park
http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/index.htm
NPS geology website for Grand Teton National Park
http://www.nps.gov/grte/naturescience/geology.htm
Digital geologic map (ID I-2031) of the Teton region
http://store.usgs.gov/mod/wy.html
Geologic Map Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp729g/plate3.pdf
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
http://www.mbmg.mtech.edu/
Wyoming State Geological Survey
http://www.wsgs.uwyo.edu/default.aspx2
Idaho State Geological Survey
http://www.idahogeology.org/
Real-time earthquake information
University of Utah Yellowstone real-time earthquake locations
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html
Intermountain region real-time earthquakes
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/anss_imw.html
USGS National Earthquake Information Center
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
Report If You Feel an Earthquake (Internet)
Public Reporting of Felt Earthquakes and Maps of Felt Reports. (Please fill out
the US Geological Survey's Community Internet Intensity Survey)
http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/shake/imw/
Global earthquake monitor
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/
Crustal Deformation from GPS, InSAR and LiDAR
GPS measured ground movements of Yellowstone, Teton and the Snake
River Plain
http://www.uusatrg.utah.edu/ts_ysrp.html
EarthScope GPS data for the western U.S.
http://pboweb.unavco.org/?pageid=88\
LiDAR maps for Intermountain region (Yellowstone volcanic field, WY, Teton
fault, WY, and Wasatch fault, UT)
http://www.opentopography.org/index.php
EarthScope Science Program
NSF EarthScope Program with GPS and seismic measurements of the
entire US (with links to the focused research project on the Yellowstone hotspot
and motions of the Teton and Hebgen Lake faults)
http://www.earthscope.org
Plate Boundary Observatory: Data: Network of GPS, strainmeters, LIDAR
etc.
http://pboweb.unavco.org/
USArray (United States array of seismographs): Data from transportable
seismograph array
http://www.earthscope.org/observatories/usarray3
Earthquake Hazard Information
Report If You Feel an Earthquake Internet Public Reporting of Felt
Earthquakes and Maps of Felt Reports
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/dyfi/
Earthquake Notification Service (anyone can subscribe to a real-time Internet
earthquake alert system with earthquake maps, ground shaking)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/
U.S. Earthquake Hazard Maps
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/hazmaps/
Teton County Earthquake Information from Project Impact
http://members.tripod.com/teton_projectimpact/id49.htm
The Teton fault, Wyoming: Topographic signature, neotectonics, and
mechanisms of deformation
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1994/94JB00281.shtml
Putting down roots in earthquake country (Specifically for Utah and Idaho but
has good applications to any active earthquake area, like the Teton Fault)
http://ussc.utah.gov/putting_down_roots.html
http://www.idahogeology.org/uploads/Earthquake-9-10-09.pdf
Wyoming and Teton Landslide Hazard Maps
http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsgs/hazards/landslides/landslides.html
Volcano Hazard Information
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (contains extensive list of topics and links
for geologic maps, hazard and educational information, etc.)
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/
USGS Volcano Hazards Program
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
http://www.volcano.si.edu/
Volcano World
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
Educational Web Sites on Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes and
Volcanoes
National Geographic 2009 Yellowstone article
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/yellowstone/achenbach-text4
Animated Yellowstone Seismicity Maps
http://www.yellowstonegis.utah.edu/maps/yellowstoneQuakes/index.html
Teton County GIS interactive map server
http://www2.tetonwyo.org/mapserver/
What’s Under Yellowstone?
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/under/under.html
Yellowstone Supervolcano
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/supervolcano/
American Museum of Natural History Yellowstone science bulletin
http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/index.php?sid=e.f.yellowstone.20060601
Plate tectonics
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html
The Savage Earth
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
Earthquakes, plate tectonics and space methods in Earth Sciences
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/
Investigating earthquakes
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/Module/module.html
National Park Service homepages
Yellowstone National Park
http://www.nps.gov/yell/
Grand Teton National Park
http://www.nps.gov/grte/
Natural Resources Bibliography for National Parks
http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/apps/nrbib/
Outreach and educational organizations
Teton Science Schools
http://www.tetonscience.org
Grand Teton National Park Foundation
http://www.gtnpf.org/
Grand Teton Association
http://www.grandtetonpark.org/
Yellowstone Association
http://www.yellowstoneassociation.org/
Yellowstone National Park Foundation
http://www.ypf.org/
Yellowstone Science, quarterly magazine
http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/yellsciweb.htm
Bob Smith’s web sites and contact information
Bob Smith University of Utah web site
http://www.earth.utah.edu/people/faculty/rsmith
Bob Smith’s Seismology and Active Tectonics Research Group:
Yellowstone Plume, Hotspot, Teton and Wasatch Front Earthquake
Research
http://www.uusatrg.utah.edu/
Email address for Bob Smith, University of Utah: robert.b.smith@utah.edu
Links to Everything
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